Halloween in Oxfordshire 2017

This October there are lots of ghastly Halloween activities taking places across Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas for children of all ages. So grab your broomsticks and cat ears, we’ve pulled together a list of our top picks for you to try out, if you dare…

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Bogtrotting Baddies Party – Roald Dahl Museum Sunday 22ND October

Celebrate Roald Dahl’s funny but bad characters as you play baddy bingo and other party games.

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Times: 11.30pm, 12.30pm, 2.00pm and 3pm on Sunday 22nd October

Cost: £2 per participant. Price does not include Museum entry which you will also need to book to take part in the workshop.

Age: recommended for 4+ years. Under 8s will need to be accompanied by an adult (no more than two non-participating adults will be allowed in the room per group). Participants aged 2 to 4 will still be charged.

Oxford Story Museum Half Term Happenings

Join The Story Museum this October Half Term for a packed programme of events and workshops, they have a number of activities happening across the week including meeting real life owls, spooky story telling and poem writing, a bogey man slime workshop and creating your own spooky house.

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Halloween Entertainment at Blenheim Palace

As autumn draws in and the nights become longer, Blenheim Palace has a delightfully spooky itinerary of events and activities to entertain your little ghouls during October Half Term.

Hop on board the ghost train to go through a creepy tunnel to the Pleasure Gardens where a bone-anza of activities are to be found.

Families can lurk around the Labyrinth or take the Mini-beasts Trail, and there will be a whole host of treats on offer in the Pleasure Gardens Deli including ice-scream and toffee apples, with pumpkin carving too!

Head to the cinema in the Stables Courtyard for classic Halloween storytelling, and there will be Spooky Tours running throughout the week with terrorific candlelit tours on selected dates…

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Halloween Trail at Cliveden

This half term there are some spooky Halloween happenings down in the woods at Cliveden! Bring your little ones to Cliveden National Trust for a fun Halloween trail around the grounds of stunning Cliveden.

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Halloween Festival at Odds Farm Park, Wooburn Common

This Half Term from the 21 – 31 October, get ready for stacks of Halloween fun at Odds Farm! Enjoy fun Halloween entertainment, dress up in your creepiest costume to take part in the twice-daily fancy dress competitions and carve a pumpkin to take home with you! How spooky will you make yours? Plus, new for 2017, take part in the Crafty Trick or Treat Walk.

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Starry Skies – Planetarium, Science Oxford

Did you know that there are over 9000 visible stars in our night sky but this is a tiny proportion of the estimated 200 – 400 billion that make up the Milky Way? Light pollution in our cities means we rarely see more than a small fraction of our celestial neighbours, but that’s where Science Oxford can help. In our inflatable planetarium you can see the night sky as it really is.

You will be shown how to navigate the stars, demonstrate how the movement of the Earth creates night and day and how the sky changes through the seasons. You’ll hear some of the stories our ancestors told about the cosmos and how these relate to what we know today.

Halloween at River & Rowing Museum

The River & Rowing Museum have a number of activities going on over half term including:

Gentle Giant on the 24th October 2017 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Make a massive mask out of willow and paper: learn fun new skills in construction and modelling.

Suitable for children aged 7 – 11 yrs. Price £8.50

Brilliant Bats on the 25th October 2017 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Make a glitzy 3D bat to hang on its roost. Find out how bats chat to each other with a high pitched code. Use your torch to light up dark autumn nights.

Suitable for children aged 4 – 7 yrs. Price £8.50

Magical Monsters on the 26th October 10:30am – 4pm

Explore a world of myths and monsters for Halloween! Enjoy spooky storytelling and get crafty designing bouncing spiders, pumpkin masks and plate monsters. Make monster feet to follow the mythical monster trail through the galleries and collect a spooky, tasty treat! Collaborate on our magical monster picture consequences – it’s going to be monstrous!

Halloween at Waddesdon Manor

The beautiful Waddesdon Manor have a number of spooky activities happening over Halloween including Spooky Afternoon Tea for Kids, Pumpkin Carving & Painting, A Creatures of the Night Trail, Isadora Moon Day & Author Reading and a Fete Worse than Death!!

Family-friendly Halloween Event at Fairytale Farm

Fairytale Farm have a family friendly Halloween event this year, from Saturday 21st to Sunday 29th October, with free games and activities for younger children. They have free pumpkin carving, spooky biscuit decorating and get creative in their colouring corner and enter the on-site competition. If visitors come dressed up for the occasion they will receive a free treat. They also have face painting for a small extra charge.

And the late-night illuminations evening on Saturday 28th October will be a special Halloween-themed event. From 5pm visitors buying the special ‘Illuminations and Supper’ all-in farm admission and food package will be able to join in with extra Halloween activities, as well seeing the farm and having a stroll through the illuminated Enchanted Walk.

Spooks and Ghouls on Chinnor Railway

Dare you go and ride on the steam hauled Ghost train with a bunch of spooks and ghouls? Well, this Halloween Sunday, you may have your chance, as they will be haunting the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway once again! Children in Halloween fancy dress travel for just £1 and will receive a small treat bag.

Halloween arts & crafts

If you’re looking for ideas to keep little hands busy this Halloween, we have some great ideas for Halloween arts and crafts. From spooky ceramic tea light holders, Halloween tattoos, themed face masks to make and decorate, Halloween stickers, stamps and loads more. Baker Ross has a huge selection of arts and crafts click here to go to their site, browse and buy.

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